Hachikita Kogen is a ski area in Hyogo, Japan. It runs from 560 m at the base to 1221 m at the summit. There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 308 cm of snowfall a season, 449th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. The nearest city of any size is Kobe, about 101 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 18 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 27 Sept | 0 | 15.7 / 19 | 8.9 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15.7 / 20 | 9.4 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.8 / 16.4 | 7.1 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.8 / 19.9 | 6.1 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.8 / 19.1 | 15.5 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 9 / 14.8 | 18.6 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.6 / 15.7 | 10.7 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
99% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift6
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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Hyonosen and Hachikita webcams & snow report — all 9 ski areas →
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikata Snow Park | 3.2 km | 308 cm | 449 |
| Sky Valley Ski Area | 4.2 km | 241 cm | 814 |
| Ojiro Ski Resort | 4.4 km | 308 cm | 449 |
| Hachikogen Ski Resort | 5.2 km | 312 cm | 425 |
| Hyounosen Kokusai Ski Resort | 7.9 km | 247 cm | 776 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 30 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 兎和野高原 weather station — 2.7 km from this ski area, 260 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 528 cm |
| 2023/24 | 303 cm |
| 2024/25 | 699 cm |
| 2025/26 | 582 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 308 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 29.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 小代温泉1号 | 2.8 km | 26℃ lukewarm | — | — | 1961 |
| 小代温泉2号 | 2.9 km | 29.5℃ lukewarm | — | — | — |
| a spring in 香美町(大笹) | 3.1 km | 27.3℃ lukewarm | — | — | 1973 |
| ハチ北温泉 | 3.1 km | 26.9℃ lukewarm | 8.98 alkaline | radioactive (radon) | 2002 |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens但馬高原植物園 | Museum | 2.1 km |
| Ojiro小代区 | Old streets | 3 km |
| 長楽寺 (兵庫県香美町) | Temple | 7.9 km |
| Mount Myōken妙見山 (養父市・香美町) | Nature | 8.6 km |
| Mount Hyōno氷ノ山 | Mountain | 9.4 km |
| Yumura Onsen湯村温泉 (兵庫県) | Hot spring town | 14.3 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Places to stay nearby
10 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 宙の森ホテル 花郷里 | ¥3,850 | 4.43 38 reviews | — | 八鹿駅より全但バス「秋岡」行に乗車（約1時間）、「小代大谷」バス停下車、徒歩で約10分 |
| 中佐屋旅館 | ¥4,730 | 3.67 32 reviews | — | 山陰本線 八鹿駅からバスで１時間１０分／和田山ＩＣ→Ｒ９０→Ｒ４８２経由で６０分 |
| ハチ北高原 プチホテル Ａｏｉｔｏｒｉ | ¥7,000 | 3.67 14 reviews | — | 八鹿駅からバスで３０分 |
| ＭＡＴＳＵＤＡＹＡ 松田屋 | ¥9,800 | 4.46 90 reviews | — | JR山陰線 八鹿駅から路線バスで５０分/バス停より徒歩5分 日高神鍋高原ICより車で３０分 |
| 料理旅館 大平山荘 | ¥12,630 | 4.50 18 reviews | — | 八鹿駅からバス約70分で小代地域局(バス停)・小代地域局から徒歩約20分、車で約4分／ 八鹿氷ノ山ICから車で約50分 |
| 貸切りサウナに貸切り宿！！モダン古民家リビングで薪ストーブを囲んでくつろぎのひととき！ ＾ | — | — | — | 若桜駅から車で約４３分 |
| ロッヂ野間 | — | — | — | ＪＲ山陰本線 八鹿駅よりお車にて４０分 |
| 旅館 民宿 松屋 | — | — | — | 八鹿駅から全但バス（村岡行、秋岡行、湯村温泉行）乗車し約４０分、ハチ北口で下車 |
| ハチ北高原スキー場 ロッヂあさひ | — | — | — | 八鹿駅よりバスにてハチ北口まで４０分 |
| 美方パレス | — | — | — | ＪＲ山陰本線 八鹿駅より全但バス秋岡行にて７０分／国道Ｒ９号鳥取方面へ春来バイパス長板信号入り３キロ |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 1.7 km
Nearest first
- 藤乃 Guest house 1.7 km
- Suminoya Guesthouse Guest house 2.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28